Author: nodens

Fall 2016 Much like how game is supposed to start at 10pm but by midnight you’re hastily duct taping a piece of tarp to a shaky rafter with a $39 fog machine threatening to set the barn on fire, for real, we’re back with a few announcements and quick review of the 2016 Fall New England Sport LARPing schedule. The TL;DR version is simply here – the New England Sport LARP Calendar: http://www.larphack.com/calendar/ General Announcements Firstly, as you may have noticed, we’ve transitioned the New England Sport LARP Calendar, which was hosted off of Xeph-Ink (currently held hostage by...

Vendor Hack – B3 Imagination Studios A Premiere Maker Space for LARPers and SCAdians alike Before we take a look at B3 Imagination Studios in depth we need to have a quick rehash of New England LARPing Lore, some of which I will probably get a touch wrong but hopefully in a positive-embellishment fashion. I remember Ben Becker, the owner of B3 (we’ll let you guess what the third “B” stands for – there should probably be a prize or something shouldn’t there?) once telling me that within a few hours of attending his first NERO game he knew...

Vendor Hack – Monster Camp Designs with LARPers in Mind! By now you’ve probably bought those masks, you know the ones? They get knocked off 80% the day after Halloween (aka LARPer Christmas) or like 3 months before Halloween at select Michael’s or CVS(es?). They are generally passable ½ to ¾ masks which allow NPCs to breathe reasonably well, see reasonably well and only smell like a combination of dead mice, sweat and Lysol. These masks came out around 15 years ago and are, by now, standard fare at most games which means it’s about damn time to find something...

Camp Hack – YMCA Camp Woodstock A LARP Camp Site Review Overview Camp Woodstock, located in Woodstock, Connecticut (42 Camp Road, Woodstock Valley, CT to be precise – http://www.campwoodstock.org/) has been hosting LARP events for around 8 years. The site can hold vast amounts of attendees, 300 or more, and has a fully staffed dining facility and several decent module buildings. Three things really make Camp Woodstock shine; 1) it is one of the few weatherized sites allowing for winter events 2) the camp constantly improves all their buildings, tearing down to the studs and entirely refinishing a cabin...

Vendor Hack Half Moon – the best $20 $265+ dollars you’ll ever spend At the point where you’ve put a few events under your belt, remembered at least 6 other PCs names, and suffered through rain, wind, snow, hail, mud, sleet and the dreaded rainmudsleetwind™ it’s time to put in a few extra hours at work and buy “that” coat and/or cloak and/or cowl. You know the one – everyone else at the game seems to have it in either black, grey, green or a dark brown. They are a staple of LARPing in bad weather (forever shorted to...